Police and investigators arrive at the crime scene, after a boy was killed on 15 August. Acapulco, the Mexican seaside resort much favored by the 1960s jetset, has become a battleground in the wars between drug cartels that are afflicting the country. Nightclubs are closing, and tourists staying away, as the violence escalates.

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Pedro Pardo was born in Puebla in 1974, and studied graphic design at the Insituto de Artes Visuales in Puebla. He went on to do a number of courses in photography and journalism, including workshops with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris, and on urban photojournalism at the Centro de Estudios Martianos, in Havana. Pardo has worked as a photographer and editor with El Universal, Sintesis, El Sur, La Jornada de Oriente, and La Jornada de Guerro. Currently he works for La Jornada de Guerro in conjunction with the Agence France-Presse.